Election results in Delhi: The percentage of votes that the BJP received and the AAP did not

Muslim votes were divided in the Delhi assembly elections, but the AAP nevertheless won six of the seven seats.

After 27 years, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to form a government in the nation's capital after winning the Delhi assembly election. Nearly 10 percent of the vote has been taken away from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which won the last two assembly elections with sizable mandates. The vote shares of the AAP and BJP in 2015, 2020, and 2025 are shown here.

The AAP received 43.55 percent of the vote, the Congress received 6.36 percent, and the BJP received 45.76 percent in the 2025 Delhi assembly election.

The Aam Aadmi Party received 53.57 percent of the vote and won 62 seats in the last assembly election. 22 seats seem to be going to the party. This indicates that the party lost about 40 seats in exchange for a 10 percent drop in vote share.

In 2020, the BJP received 38.51 percent of the vote. The BJP secured about 40 seats with a vote increase of more than 7 percentage points.

The Congress was also a major factor in the AAP's defeat in numerous seats. The AAP's support base was weakened as the party's vote share increased from 4.26 to 6.36.

Although there was a split of Muslim votes in the Delhi assembly elections, the AAP nonetheless won six of the seven seats with a sizable population.

There were four Muslim candidates in the Delhi Assembly, compared to five the previous time. They are Chaudhary Zubair Ahmad (AAP) from Seelampur, Aaley Mohammed Iqbal (AAP) from Matia Mahal, Imran Hussain (AAP) from Ballimaran, and Amanatullah Khan (AAP) from Okhla.

All seven seats with a sizable Muslim population—Okhla, Babarpur, Mustafabad, Seelampur, Matia Mahal, Ballimaran, and Chandni Chowk—were won by the AAP in 2020. With the exception of Mustafabad, where the Muslim vote was divided three ways between the AAP, AIMIM, and the Congress, it won six this time.

Although the majority of Muslims had supported the AAP in 2020, there was a small split in the community's vote this time, which was insufficient to hurt the party's chances in places with a high Muslim population.

The sole exception was Mustafabad, where BJP's Mohan Singh Bisht won a significant victory by 17,578 votes due to a division of votes among the three Muslim candidates of the AAP, AIMIM, and the Congress.